It's ur responsibility as an internet user what content u focus on .. don't resent the options just because u have different tastes in media and art .. I'm starting to get sick of the over use and abuse if the term OFFENDED .. I'm glad when people can say or think or express something different than what I would have because that makes the world more interesting .. not that I'm boring but how selfish would I have to be to limit everyone else to my ideas and preferences .. let's let peeps be peeps peeps..

Maybe here's what's going on, at least some of the time: A person is drawn by the sexual content. We're sexual creatures, most of us are drawn by sexual contant and we can't help that. But then the actual image clashes with the way they view themselves; maybe just because it's sexy and they were brought up thinking sex is dirty, but it could be for any number of reasons a particular piece offends. And yet they can't deny the draw despite their conditioning. So now the image is making them feel uncomfortable about themselves, which quickly turns to anger. If the image wasn't there, they think, then they wouldn't have felt this confusing and unpleasant way in the first place.I'm not saying anyone should stop uploading the sexy stuff - god no! I'm just wondering about what's behind this particular behaviour. Though annoying, it may be a little understandable, and a little sad.

well, despite the fact that some people are dumb in term of Opinions, I gotta say that the "nude hiding" option is fair broken, it simply doesn't work and it's a little upsetting for me, asses and boobs aren't a mystery but it's tiring a some point see them everywhere in the front page

One of the things I like most about posts like this (regardless of their content or message) is how vehemently people will argue their OPINION on the freaking INTERNET! I'll read the post, view the image, consider whether or not it is something I feel like commenting on... and then I take a few minutes just scrolling through the comments and seeing how far I get before I start developing "eye-roll" strain.

An opinion on the internet is about as useful as a glass of water at the bottom of the ocean. But, of course, this is just my glass of water at the bottom of the ocean. I don't post to start a fight, I post with a casual observation. Why waste precious moments of your life deliberately looking at something you don't like? I do not enjoy Death Metal Concerts, so I will not go to one. So many people (on the internet as a whole) seem to attend the concert, waste the 4-6 hours that it may run, just so they can complain about how terrible it was. I'm sorry, but I would rather spend my time (which is more precious than money to a lot of people) doing something I actually like. And if, for some horrible reason, what you like is getting into flame wars on the internet... *sigh* please find another outlet. Justifying your existence by pissing off another person is really sad.

But, I will leave you holding your glass of water as I walk away with mine.

*READS DESCRIPTION* Those...are all fair points. Though I always thought the "Deviant" in "Deviantart" was meant to "Deviate" from conventional artistic norms and traditional ways of thinking, or something

To those -still- wishing to try and hammer about "that style of art"...its body shaming. Its denoting someone of a certain physique isnt "normal or real". To sat the overtly voluptuous is disgusting in her open sexuality due to her "not being real" is as shaming as saying a bbw is disgusting. We get the "REAL women do not look like that" yes...yes they do. and they are thin and big and tiny and lumpy and smooth and tall and short and have hanging bits and tight bits and every imaginable thing in between. If you are CHOOSING to actively look at certain works, do not go and complain it was there for you to sit, stare at, flip back too, link back to, etc when YOU are actively choosing to do it. no one is behind your screen with a gun to your head FORCING you to view it....if they are then you have a WHOLE different issue to deal with anyway

There is one sentiment here I disagree with, I'm not bothered by a little tits and ass cause I think those are good things but I don't wanna see low quality work (your work is obviously not a part of that category). That being said, I don't see why that should bother her so much. The work she's whining about actually looks really good. Maybe not anatomically perfect but still visually appealing.

I'm the administrator for three groups, if I want to effectively manage those groups which means whether I want to look or not I have to. That's what you appear to have missed here, sometimes we have to look. What the girl in this deviation is complaining about is nudity on the front page when she logs in, THAT IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A CHOICE so please don't start getting high and mighty with me just because I lack a preference for low quality work. Unlike you I still look because I can critique and occasionally help the artists develop their skills further.

...while getting "high and mighty" and judging "low quality work" and then getting a snit about looking at it. If you manage those groups(was I suppose to be impressed?) you have the option of setting the groups rules to "no nudity" etc. it is a CHOICE to look. Like wise there is the "no mature content" option.

I look and I am smart enough to realize if I CHOOSE to look the onus is one ME not the poster. If it is not breaking the rules....sorry. get a grip on life and realize the world doesnt revolve around just your "offended" nature.

This has never been about trying to impress you, frankly, I couldn't care less what you think. I was just saying that if someone wants to run a group efficiently then they have to be willing to look at low quality work (not just nudity) because it is their job to decide whether it is accepted into said group or not. You can't fairly decide whether something belongs without looking at it. That being said, if I see low quality work such as a crayon drawing of stick figures on the front page in the Popular 24 hours section I am not going to say that I think it belongs there.

That being said I won't do what that woman in the picture did, or what you are doing now (discouraging others needlessly), but I'm not going to agree with it either. Go ahead, talk down to me, if you aren't helping to improve then you are aiming hurt and that is the difference between you and I.

Uh huh, you did -exactly- what that woman in the illustration did and more by trying to shame those you deem below standard. When given a dose of your own medicine you, again, decide to play the holier than thou game. Frankly, you are just another hypocrite on DA trying to sound off.

You are sitting a fence so hard I am surprised you do not have splinters in your sphincter.(your with the artists, your not with the artists, you agree but you dont agree.....serious fence riding)

My point was(as clearly missed) You are no the judge of what is "Low quality" as your work could very easily be seen as such but to you and your fans it is seen as ok.To those you are deeming "low quality" it must hit some points or it wouldnt hit the popular 24.Art doesnt have to be "high quality" (which is completely subjective) to be popular or even inspiring. I find a calf cut in half and put in lucite to be "low quality and vulgar" yet it has a place in a museum.

You came and sounded of trying to sound highly intellectual and very superior....and I tossed it back at you to show you the utter ridiculousness of it....

No, what the woman in the picture did was she went out of her way to talk down to what I'm assuming is Jollyjack because she didn't like his work. All I said was that I disagree with a part of that sentiment, I didn't talk down to him. I just disagreed. You don't seem to get it, it was my opinion, YOU KNOW? THAT GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO HUMANS FOR THEM TO DECIDE WHAT THEY LIKE? You must not be familiar with the concept because you have went out of your way to talk down to someone for an OPINION of all things! You wanna keep talking down to me? You go right on ahead because I'm not going to change my opinion because some person on the internet is busy trying to oversimplify it. It's just not the same to decide you don't care for nudity and to decide you don't care for what you might define as low quality work especially if you have to spend your time accepting/declining it.

Now you can sit here and lie to me about how you were trying to "toss it back" when we both know better since all you've done is insult me, talk down to me, and ride on that fence you mentioned but frankly I'm in no mood to try to justify myself any further to a self righteous, high and mighty, passive aggressive deviant who picked a fight because of an OPINION.